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- Dictionarysvelte/svɛlt/
adjective
- 1. (of a person) slender and elegant: "she was svelte and sophisticated"
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Svelte is an adjective that means slender, lithe, or sleek, or urbane and suave. It comes from French svelte, from Italian svelto, from Latin evellere, meaning "to pluck out".
Svelte means attractively thin, graceful, and stylish. Learn how to use this word in sentences and see synonyms, antonyms, and translations.
Svelte means slender. It's used to describe people, not things, and it implies a certain elegance. You might say that a middle-aged woman who had kept a svelte figure could still pass for a sixteen-year-old girl.
Svelte means attractively thin, graceful, and stylish. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see synonyms and antonyms, and explore related words and phrases.
Svelte definition: slender, especially gracefully slender in figure; lithe.. See examples of SVELTE used in a sentence.
2 meanings: 1. attractively or gracefully slim; slender 2. urbane or sophisticated.... Click for more definitions.
Definition of svelte adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
